Assessing Writing, Teaching Writers: Putting the Analytic Writing Continuum to Work in Your Classroom

Language and Literacy

by Mary Ann Smith, Sherry Seale Swain (With)

Many writing teachers are searching for a better way to turn student writing into teaching and learning opportunities without being crushed under the weight of student papers. This book introduces a rubric designed by the National Writing Projectthe Analytic Writing Continuum (AWC)that is making its way into classrooms across the country at all grade levels. The authors use sample student writing and multiple classroom scenarios to illustrate how teachers have adapted this flexible tool to meet the needs of their students, including using the AWC to teach revision, give feedback, direct peer-to-peer response groups, and serve as a formative assessment guide. This resource also discusses how to set up a local scoring session and how to use the AWC in professional development.

128 pages, Paperback

Published December 23, 2016

Reviews

[Alec Lurie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very helpful, but so, so dry.

[Elisa]

It's a rubric.

This book is literally talking about how rubrics aren't good and all of this but then tells you about this rubric that you can use.

Some good things are that this book emphasizes how to help your students engage with a rubric before sicking it on them and having rubrics be a part of the class and not just the final assessment.

But yeah, it's a rubric.